Category Archives: Games

Our gaming section is one of our most involved sections here at Old-Wizard.com. We cover a multitude of gaming experiences from video games and collectible card games, to even board games. We not only love video games enough to write a myriad of Top 100/20 video game lists, but love certain board games enough to write an elaborate review of “Candyland”. We also cover Heroclix, Warhammer, and the always inviolable cards of Magic The Gathering. In some ways, this section is the heart of Old-Wizard.com as we first conceived our website through many a drunken night, expatiating and discussing the ordering of a top 100 video game list and also why Candyland was more of an entertaining board game than “Clue: For Beginners”. When it came to discussing Magic the Gathering, it usually quickly ended in a call out for a challenge to see who’s deck was really the best. It’s with great care and prudence that we write our gaming articles. We understand how important this stuff was and still is to us as we continually fail to be adults.

Top 10 Video Game Clichés

Clichés are found in everything from music to movies to anything where creativity finds a home. This is no different with the video game medium, which mimics past ideas to no end. Why tamper with a formula for success? Repetition … Continue reading

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Top 10 Ways to Know If You’re a "Hardcore Gamer"

We here at OW get a lot of flack from a group of people who refer to themselves as “hardcore gamers.” Despite the fact that we have never claimed to cater to anyone, other than ourselves, these people feel they … Continue reading

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The Top 10 Reasons the Wii Has Dominated the PS3

After Nintendo’s utter domination of Sega in every single platform generation, a new console war was started between Sony and Nintendo.  Sony thought it would try to take on the Nintendo franchise and learn from the mistakes of Sega. Sony … Continue reading

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Top 10 Video Game Quotes

Its a well known fact that nerds love quotes, whether they’re video game quotes, movie quotes or almost anything else from pop culture. Most people who know a nerd personally will tell you that its hard to have a conversation … Continue reading

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Top 5 Zelda Games

Has there ever been a better video game series than the Zelda series? Maybe the Super Mario, Castlevania, Metroid or Mega Man series, but after those, Zelda has no competition. The single factor that contributes towards a great gaming series … Continue reading

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Top 10 Easiest Video Games of All Time

What makes a game easy? How about an unlimited amount of lives? How about an unlimited amount of continues after you’ve  lost all your lives? How about a seemingly never ending amount of energy? There is something noticeable about all … Continue reading

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Top 10 Video Games From the 80′s

Oh the 80′s. Bad haircuts, moderately entertaining family sitcoms, and the first glimpses of the technology boom. What else were the 80′s known for? How about the emergence of the home video game platform that entertained an entire generation of … Continue reading

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Top 20 Hardest Video Games of All Time

Remember the first time you played a game where you couldn’t get by the first level no matter how hard you tried? Remember thinking to yourself that you spent three dollars to rent a game that was so difficult you … Continue reading

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Top 5 Reasons Not to Play Joust

Everyone raves about Joust as being on par with Pac-man and Tetris. There’s a sacred set of games that are perfect in their simplicity. The later games are always amongst the first listed in this sacred set. For some reason … Continue reading

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Top 5 Mario Power-Ups

As Old-Wizard continues to remember the good old days of retro games, we always come back to Nintendo and the Mario Brothers games. In this list we will go through what we think are the top five power ups for … Continue reading

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